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Carcharhinus melanopterus (blacktip reef shark)
Taxonomy
Carcharias melanopterus was named by Quoy and Gaimard (1824). It is extant.
It was recombined as Carcharhinus melanopterus by Kocsis et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Carcharhinus melanopterus by Kocsis et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. acanthodon, C. ackermanii, C. ackermanni, C. aculeatus, C. albomarginatus, C. altimus, C. balochensis, C. brachiurus, C. brachurus, C. brachylurus, C. brevipinna, C. collata, C. collatus, C. egatoni, C. egeroni, C. eggertoni, C. galapagensis, C. gangeticus, C. lamiella, C. limbatus, C. maculipinnis, C. priscusi, C. pristis, C. similis, C. velox, C. limbatus
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1824 | Carcharias melanopterus Quoy and Gaimard |
| 2019 | Carcharhinus melanopterus Kocsis et al. p. 801 fig. 5H |
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Carcharhinus melanopterus Quoy and Gaimard 1824 [blacktip reef shark]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Miocene or 11.63000 to 5.33300 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Brunei Darussalam | Carcharhinus melanopterus (194518) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | South Africa | Carcharhinus melanopterus (22219) |